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Sentences starting with own

Own up that you like--a little variety in life. [9]

Sentences ending with own

These wailings are your own. [11]
The house is your own. [10]
Can't you get your friends to unite with you in committing those odious instruments of debauchery to the flames in which you have consumed your own? [6]
I have avoided your bait, as you call it, for your sake, not mine own. [11]
Charles Emerson, the younger brother, who was of the same type, expresses the feeling in his college essay on Friendship, where it is all summed up in the line he quotes:-- "The hand of Douglas is his own. [6]
But, Ruth, do you think you would be happier or do more good in following your profession than in having a home of your own? [5]
I will give you the meal from my own. [11]
I know that you risked your life to save my own. [9]
Of the reports you mention, I have not the means of seeing any except your own. [7]
The idea that you can't do what you like with your own! [5]

Short sentences using own

Have your own way.... [11]
My own mare wasn't fit. [11]
Her own smile was fleeting. [9]
His own was very moist. [9]
His own name, too. [11]
His own eyes swam. [11]
My own, own Susan! [6]
His own treatise, sure enough! [6]
By his own standard. [5]
For her own sake? [11]

Sentences containing own two or more times

Seek elsewhere, among your own people, in your own religion and language and position, the Mistress of Rozel. [11]
He is of your own county, of your own village, is your neighbour, a man of whom all England should be proud. [11]
The greater the works which the traveller's eyes beheld, the more insignificant he felt, the more pitiful his own powers, his own skill appeared. [10]
One has to work, however, in one's own way, after one's own idiosyncrasies, and here is the book that represents one of my own idiosyncrasies in its most primitive form. [11]
Commonplace as the words were, they thrilled him, for he thought of a table of his own in a home of his own, and the same words spoken everyday, but without the "Sergeant,"--simply "Tom. [11]
Something in her words had ruled him to her own calmness, and at that moment he had the first flash of understanding of her nature and its true relation to his own. [11]
My uncle remonstrated with him, but the man said, "I own one end of this echo; I choose to kill my end; you must take care of your own end yourself. [5]
As the day will probably come when every man in Hartford will live in his own mammoth, five-story granite insurance building, it may not be unreasonable to expect that every man will sport his own Gothic church. [4]
I think it will elect its Pope from its own body, and that it will fill its own vacancies. [5]
There isn't a wife in the world who has not taken the exact measure of her husband, weighed him and settled him in her own mind, and knows him as well as if she had ordered him after designs and specifications of her own. [4]

More example sentences with the word own in them

I hunger for you--to stand beside you, to listen to your voice, to dip my prison fingers into the pure cauldron of your soul and feel my own soul expand. [11]
You would lose your own, in my circumstances. [5]
Your mouths are your own, and you can blow off to suit your fancy, but if any one thinks I'm a tame coyote to be poked with a stick--! [11]
He says: "Sink your own will; let it be subject to a higher, and you need take no thought. [11]
You can take your own time, stop when and where you choose--at the more stations the better. [4]
You have put your own son to him. [9]
I didn't know your own Snodgrass, but have had glimpses of him from time to time, and I heard about him all the time. [5]
In this matter your own sense of military propriety must be your guide, and the regulations of the service your rule of conduct. [7]
But you bring your own punishment,' he added, with a wicked smile, 'and you shall pay hereafter. [11]
Come back to your own people; be a true daughter of the Ry of Rys; live with your Romany chal. [11]
In peril--here with your own people, in Europe with the nations. [11]
You shall form your own opinion of her. [6]
You may thank your own nobility and courage that you remained in London after that. [9]
Hadn't you got your own little spots there, and made friends with them? [11]
I know from your own lips that there is no passion which can betray Caesar into perjury. [10]
But it is your own happiness I am thinking of. [4]
What's he beside your own flesh and blood, I say again. [11]
Why, nobody but your own family, of course. [6]
Why, she's like your own daughter. [9]
Remain faithful to your own creed--otherwise. [10]
You may draw your own conclusions. [6]
You can make your own comment; I am fanciful, you know. [6]
Still, if in your own clear judgment you can renew the attack successfully, I do not mean to restrain you. [7]
Carnac, you have your own career to make, so make it as it best suits yourself. [11]
You have prepared your own brine, Monsieur; in it you shall pickle. [11]
You can't name your own amanuensis, Mr. [5]
Ah, well, it's your own affair. [4]
Your estimate of your own ability is not the question, it is what the patient thinks of it. [3]
I must ask your indulgence while I quote a few verses from a poem of my own, printed long ago under the title "At the Pantomime. [6]
Thank you for your dear, dear note; you who are my own and only sweetheart. [5]
I recognize in your arguments that which smacks of his tongue, despite what he says of your reading the public prints and of forming your own opinions. [9]
A very interesting young married woman, detained at home at the time by the state of her health, was bitten in the entry of her own house by a rattlesnake which had found its way down from The Mountain. [6]
I quite understand you; and until I feel that you have good reason once more to respect the maniac who lost you by his own fault, I, who fought you like your most deadly foe, will not even speak the final word. [10]
I swear to you, that this very Phanes has accepted Cambyses' gold and promised not only to be his guide to Egypt, but to open the gates of your own Greek cities to him. [10]
Few will resist you, but of those few the first will surely be your own father. [10]
They will tell you, about here, that I have a kind of hobby for keeping people from digging and crawling into their own graves. [11]
Are any of you younger people old enough to remember that Irishman's house on the marsh at Cambridgeport, which house he built from drain to chimney-top with his own hands? [6]
If I ask you what b-o-w spells you can't tell me unless you know which b-o-w I mean, and it is the same with r-o-w, b-o-r-e, and the whole family of words which were born out of lawful wedlock and don't know their own origin. [5]
I said that you were the chosen Emperor of the Faithful, the coming king of the world, but he replied that the prophets of old taught their disciples with their own tongues. [11]
Last Easter day you were in a drunken sleep while Mass was being said; after the funeral of your own father you were drunk again. [11]
I understood that you were a man of letters, and I hoped I might have the privilege of hearing from your own lips some account of your literary experiences. [6]
You know all, you trust me, and, my dear husband, my own love, we must part once more. [11]
I am telling you this for your own good--not mine. [9]
I may inform you that my master ordered me take as much care of you as if you were his own daughter. [10]
Need I tell you that I am a lost and despised man if I am found guilty of this act of the maddest folly by the judges of my own house? [10]
Didn't I tell you that a man's got to know the river in the night the same as he'd know his own front hall? [5]
When I tell you that a bit of ribbon in my button-hole sets my vanity prancing, I think you cannot be grievously offended that I smile at the resonant titles which make you something more than human in your own eyes. [6]
Didn't I tell you that _you_ couldn't enter unless your religion, whatever it might be, was your own free property? [5]
I am telling you something for your own good--which you probably know already. [9]
Equity demands that you should be your own interpreter. [14]
Well, what do you say, friends, to being our own Victualling Board out in the open sea, if we can get there? [11]
But the King you represent had not restricted his liberties so, and you being the King, that is, yourself, were forced to abide by your own regulations. [11]
My note to you only means that if you know of any such thing rendering a suspension of the execution proper, on your own judgment, you are at liberty to suspend it. [7]
I can give you only a brief abstract of my own opinions on this delicate and difficult subject. [6]
When I telegraphed you on the 6th, saying you had over 100,000 with you, I had just obtained from the Secretary of War a statement, taken as he said from your own returns, making 108,000 then with you and en route to you. [7]
I will await you near the little temple of Isis with our travelling chariot and my own horses, will receive Irene, and conduct her to some new refuge while you drive back Fuergetes' chariot, and restore it to the driver. [10]
I will put you into my own box. [5]
I don't ask you for my own sake alone. [11]
And you--forgive, if you desire to be forgiven that guilt, which you bear as an inheritance from your fathers, and for your own sins. [10]
But I thought you dead by now, and--" "If you are disappointed," said I, "there is a way"; and I waved towards his men, then to Mr. Stevens and my own ambushed fellows. [11]
You said what you chose, and spoke from your own convictions, and catered to no one. [9]
They swarm about you at every step; no single foot of ground in all Jerusalem or within its neighborhood seems to be without a stirring and important history of its own. [5]
And yet if you are to understand me I must own that so long as I was young I longed bitterly for the love which no one offered me. [10]
I have told you all this for Philip's sake, not for my own. [10]
I shall have you again--all my own! [11]
At last he yielded to the longing which urged him, and kissed little John--his, yes, his own son--first on his high, open brow, and then on his red lips. [10]
The woman may yield to overwhelming circumstances, she may even by her own consent be false to herself, but the love lives, however hidden and smothered, so long as the vital force is capable of responding to a true emotion. [4]
David had not yet been fortunate with his own business--the settlement of his Uncle Benn's estate--though the last stages of negotiation with the Prince Pasha seemed to have been reached. [11]
He did not yet apprehend his own selfishness nor her nobility. [4]
I am jealous, yes, I own I am jealous of any word, spoken or written, that would tend to impair that birthright of reverence which becomes for so many in after years the basis of a deeper religious sentiment. [6]
Through all the years, down beneath everything, there had been the helpless knowledge in her own small, garish mind that she had little sense; now she realized that she was given a chance to atone for all her pettiness by doing one great sensible thing. [11]
For a hundred years the South was developed on its own lines, with astonishingly little exterior bias. [4]
A man invests years of work and a vast sum of money in a worthy enterprise, upon the faith of existing laws; then the law is changed, and the man is robbed by his own government. [5]
During the earliest years of the new century the political atmosphere had changed, the public had shown a tendency to grow restless; and everybody knows how important it is for financial operations, for prosperity, that the people should mind their own business. [9]
After all the years he had disapproved of Austen's deeds it seemed strange indeed to be called to account by the prodigal for his own. [9]
And for ten years Bishop Dyer had been the closest friend and counselor of her father, and for the greater part of that period her own friend and Scriptural teacher. [13]
That Mrs. Eddy wrote that amazing By-law with her own hand we have much better evidence than her word. [5]
He might be wrong, but his words carried the evidence of his own serene, unshaken confidence that the spirit of all truth was with him. [6]
His own words written that fateful day before he died at the Cote Dorion came to him: "Sacristan, acolyte, player, or preacher, Each to his office, but who holds the key? [11]
On it was written a sorrow for me greater than my own sorrow. [9]
Biography, every man writes his own, 1. [6]
Many a young writer will recall his words of encouragement at some period in his own career when the quiet appreciation of one meant more to him than did later the loud applause of many. [4]
He's own hand-writing, write by himself! [5]
One has to write according to the impulse that seizes one and after the fashion of one's own mind. [11]
The last severe wrench was come, and she had left him standing there alone in the cold, divining what was in his heart as though it were in her own. [9]
She had carefully woven the cloak with her own hands, and that, she cried, was the way her labor was valued! [10]
Very often a wounded animal, hearing a rustle, rushes straight at the hunter's gun, runs forward and back again, and hastens its own end. [2]
His own mother wouldn't 'a' knowed him. [5]
Try as she would, she could not find it in her heart at such a time to destroy his hope,--or her own. [9]
She said she would wait awhile longer, but if at the end of six months I didn't do my duty, she'd see the thing through here among my own people. [11]
How gladly I would spare myself my own praises, and you the necessity of listening to them! [10]
And when I would rise from table silent and with drooping head, the Magister would full often beg leave to follow me to my chamber, and comfort me after his own guise. [10]
My own history would really seem so tame contrasted with that of my ancestors, that it is simply wisdom to leave it unwritten until I am hanged. [5]
Kentucky, if she would prosper, must look to her own welfare. [9]
Probably, therefore, it would not suit the American, whose imagination does not work so easily backward as forward, and who prefers to build his own nest rather than settle in anybody else's rookery. [4]
He wished people would mind their own business. [4]
Of course this would make necessary other slight alterations, for no kind-hearted writer would be cruel to his own creations, and expose them to the vicissitudes of the seasons. [4]
A keen observer would have seen in the glowing, unrestful look, in the hot cheek, in the interlacing fingers, that a contest was going on in the woman's soul, as she drove homeward with all that was her own in the world. [11]
How gladly she would have held back the sun which was bringing on the day of death to this kindest of mistresses, and have spent the rest of her own life in perpetual night, if only her yesterday's deed could but have been undone! [10]
In truth he would have come to a bad end, but that the younger woman saved him at the risk of her own life. [10]

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